Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 84 80
Rank change year-on-year -14 -4 -26
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,124 1,687 2,249
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.81% 3.41% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 3.84% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,420 809 1,319
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £42,999
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,634 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £117,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,310 £68,525 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.15% +9.64% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,853 43,932 62,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.10% 88.75% 81.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,280 24,639 34,370
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -3.39%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 26 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 26 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -21 1,831 £75,000 +0.67% 1,975
UK excluding London -20 1,162 £69,310 +1.15% 1,032
Work from Home -22 865 £69,310 -0.99% 981
London -15 804 £85,000 +6.25% 1,205
North of England -45 374 £75,000 +7.14% 311
South East +52 326 £65,000 -7.14% 214
North West -57 205 £80,000 +14.29% 168
South West -5 144 £67,500 +12.50% 103
Midlands -60 106 £75,000 +7.14% 112
North East +9 89 £67,153 +54.82% 52
Yorkshire 0 80 £71,466 +2.09% 93
West Midlands -33 78 £80,000 +14.29% 71
Northern Ireland -28 71 £60,000 +33.33% 79
Wales -11 70 £60,000 +15.38% 24
East of England -43 41 £60,100 -3.84% 68
Scotland -49 35 £65,000 -16.13% 125
East Midlands -57 28 £65,000 - 41
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 44 (2.07%) Confluence
2 29 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 21 (0.99%) Apache
4 17 (0.80%) CMS
5 13 (0.61%) Camunda
6 11 (0.52%) IIS
7 10 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 10 (0.47%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.38%) nginx
8 8 (0.38%) WordPress
9 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.33%) JBoss
9 7 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.28%) Drupal
11 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.14%) DNN
12 3 (0.14%) Kentico
12 3 (0.14%) Sitefinity
12 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.094%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.094%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.24%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.094%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.047%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.047%) Eikon
5 1 (0.047%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.047%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,096 (51.60%) AWS
2 901 (42.42%) Azure
3 340 (16.01%) GCP
4 284 (13.37%) GitHub
5 274 (12.90%) Serverless
6 203 (9.56%) SaaS
7 187 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
8 153 (7.20%) AWS Lambda
9 137 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
10 126 (5.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 124 (5.84%) Amazon S3
12 109 (5.13%) GitHub Copilot
13 96 (4.52%) Azure Service Bus
14 94 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
15 86 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
16 69 (3.25%) Amazon SQS
17 64 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
18 62 (2.92%) Azure AKS
19 52 (2.45%) Azure Monitor
20 50 (2.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.13%) Broadband
2 23 (1.08%) Network Security
3 15 (0.71%) DMARC
4 14 (0.66%) DNS
5 12 (0.56%) MQTT
6 11 (0.52%) VPN
7 10 (0.47%) AMQP
7 10 (0.47%) HTTP
8 7 (0.33%) Internet
9 6 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.28%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.24%) Firewall
10 5 (0.24%) RFID
11 3 (0.14%) LTE
11 3 (0.14%) NAS
11 3 (0.14%) SAN
11 3 (0.14%) SSL
12 2 (0.094%) DHCP
13 1 (0.047%) OpenVPN
13 1 (0.047%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 318 (14.97%) MongoDB
2 240 (11.30%) PostgreSQL
3 208 (9.79%) NoSQL
4 166 (7.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 152 (7.16%) Elasticsearch
6 118 (5.56%) MySQL
7 108 (5.08%) SQL Server
8 97 (4.57%) Relational Database
9 73 (3.44%) Redis
10 59 (2.78%) DynamoDB
11 45 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
12 30 (1.41%) Big Data
13 21 (0.99%) Data Lake
14 16 (0.75%) Pinecone
15 15 (0.71%) RDBMS
16 12 (0.56%) DTS
17 11 (0.52%) Db2
18 9 (0.42%) Chroma
18 9 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
18 9 (0.42%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 307 (14.45%) Git
2 199 (9.37%) GitLab
3 171 (8.05%) Jenkins
4 73 (3.44%) TeamCity
5 66 (3.11%) JUnit
6 64 (3.01%) JIRA
7 59 (2.78%) Cucumber
8 41 (1.93%) Cypress.io
9 38 (1.79%) Mockito
10 37 (1.74%) Maven
11 34 (1.60%) Claude Code
12 30 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 25 (1.18%) Selenium
14 17 (0.80%) SonarQube
14 17 (0.80%) Spock
15 15 (0.71%) JMeter
15 15 (0.71%) Postman
15 15 (0.71%) REST Assured
16 13 (0.61%) Vite
17 10 (0.47%) Bitbucket
General
1 548 (25.80%) Finance
2 442 (20.81%) Social Skills
3 246 (11.58%) Public Sector
4 212 (9.98%) Banking
5 173 (8.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 159 (7.49%) Law
7 148 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
8 138 (6.50%) Retail
9 91 (4.28%) Financial Institution
10 87 (4.10%) Legal
11 68 (3.20%) Back Office
12 60 (2.82%) Marketing
13 44 (2.07%) Aerospace
14 38 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
15 31 (1.46%) Games
16 28 (1.32%) Legal Technology
17 18 (0.85%) Front Office
18 16 (0.75%) Advertising
19 12 (0.56%) Aviation
20 11 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 768 (36.16%) Developer
2 519 (24.44%) Senior
3 380 (17.89%) Software Engineer
4 367 (17.28%) Lead
5 326 (15.35%) Architect
6 198 (9.32%) Senior Developer
7 196 (9.23%) .NET Developer
8 170 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 168 (7.91%) Java Developer
10 138 (6.50%) Java Engineer
11 129 (6.07%) Senior Software Engineer
12 128 (6.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 109 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
14 106 (4.99%) Principal Engineer
15 82 (3.86%) Lead Software Engineer
16 79 (3.72%) DevOps Engineer
17 73 (3.44%) Software Developer
18 69 (3.25%) Lead Developer
19 65 (3.06%) Technical Leader
20 64 (3.01%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 533 (25.09%) .NET
2 467 (21.99%) React
3 429 (20.20%) Node.js
4 412 (19.40%) Terraform
5 404 (19.02%) Spring
6 366 (17.23%) Spring Boot
7 323 (15.21%) RESTful
8 297 (13.98%) REST
9 294 (13.84%) Kafka
10 238 (11.21%) ASP.NET
11 229 (10.78%) AngularJS
12 217 (10.22%) .NET Core
13 203 (9.56%) Vue
14 193 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
15 122 (5.74%) Blazor
16 103 (4.85%) ASP.NET Web API
17 91 (4.28%) HTML
18 89 (4.19%) RabbitMQ
19 87 (4.10%) .NET Framework
19 87 (4.10%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 699 (32.91%) Cloud Native
2 403 (18.97%) Distributed Systems
3 171 (8.05%) Product Ownership
4 123 (5.79%) Enterprise Software
5 104 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
6 84 (3.95%) Onboarding
7 61 (2.87%) Public Cloud
8 56 (2.64%) AI Agents
9 53 (2.50%) Virtual Team
10 46 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
11 45 (2.12%) e-Learning
11 45 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
13 25 (1.18%) Management Information System
14 24 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
15 21 (0.99%) Mainframe
16 20 (0.94%) Algorithms
16 20 (0.94%) Private Cloud
17 19 (0.89%) Mobile App
17 19 (0.89%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 150 (7.06%) Linux
2 48 (2.26%) Windows
3 32 (1.51%) CentOS
3 32 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (0.99%) Unix
5 10 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.38%) Android
6 8 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.33%) AIX
7 7 (0.33%) Debian
7 7 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,162 (54.71%) CI/CD
2 1,025 (48.26%) Agile
3 768 (36.16%) Software Engineering
4 761 (35.83%) DevOps
5 576 (27.12%) Full-Stack Development
6 565 (26.60%) Mentoring
7 503 (23.68%) Event-Driven
8 472 (22.22%) AI
9 455 (21.42%) Test Automation
10 435 (20.48%) Infrastructure as Code
11 423 (19.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 419 (19.73%) Containerisation
13 386 (18.17%) Problem-Solving
14 330 (15.54%) Technical Leadership
15 310 (14.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 300 (14.12%) Scrum
17 259 (12.19%) Observability
18 258 (12.15%) Architectural Patterns
19 240 (11.30%) TDD
20 237 (11.16%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 781 (36.77%) Java
2 572 (26.93%) C#
3 509 (23.96%) SQL
4 458 (21.56%) JavaScript
5 430 (20.24%) Python
6 414 (19.49%) TypeScript
7 89 (4.19%) Go
8 58 (2.73%) Ruby
9 46 (2.17%) C++
10 35 (1.65%) Bash
11 34 (1.60%) PHP
12 28 (1.32%) Bicep
13 26 (1.22%) Kotlin
14 25 (1.18%) PowerShell
15 21 (0.99%) Rust
16 20 (0.94%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.94%) Scala
17 17 (0.80%) Groovy
18 14 (0.66%) Shell Script
19 13 (0.61%) C
Qualifications
1 350 (16.48%) Security Cleared
2 244 (11.49%) SC Cleared
3 172 (8.10%) Degree
4 101 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 88 (4.14%) AWS Certification
6 84 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 59 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 34 (1.60%) Azure Certification
9 33 (1.55%) CISSP
10 20 (0.94%) CISM
11 19 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
13 15 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.47%) MBA
15 8 (0.38%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (0.28%) PhD
17 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
18 4 (0.19%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (10.92%) QA
2 98 (4.61%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (1.84%) WCAG
4 29 (1.37%) GDPR
5 22 (1.04%) NIST
6 19 (0.89%) Data Quality
7 17 (0.80%) NCSC
8 12 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.52%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.42%) GRC
10 9 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 9 (0.42%) ISO 20022
11 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.24%) PSD2
13 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (0.14%) IFRS
System Software
1 606 (28.53%) Docker
2 41 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.47%) NDS
4 7 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.14%) KVM
8 1 (0.047%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.047%) Firmware
8 1 (0.047%) HDFS
8 1 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 675 (31.78%) Kubernetes
2 118 (5.56%) Grafana
3 107 (5.04%) Ansible
4 52 (2.45%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.32%) Argo
5 28 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (0.99%) Puppet
7 17 (0.80%) Kibana
8 10 (0.47%) Cilium
9 6 (0.28%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.24%) Podman
11 4 (0.19%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.19%) Packer
12 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.14%) Rancher
13 2 (0.094%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.047%) Cisco CUCM
14 1 (0.047%) Consul
14 1 (0.047%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.047%) logstash
Vendors
1 342 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 100 (4.71%) Google
3 71 (3.34%) Oracle
4 52 (2.45%) Splunk
5 45 (2.12%) OpenAI
6 31 (1.46%) Dynatrace
7 28 (1.32%) Okta
8 26 (1.22%) ForgeRock
9 25 (1.18%) IBM
10 24 (1.13%) AppDynamics
11 23 (1.08%) Databricks
12 18 (0.85%) OneLogin
13 15 (0.71%) SAP
13 15 (0.71%) SendGrid
14 14 (0.66%) Adobe
14 14 (0.66%) OpenText
15 13 (0.61%) CyberArk
15 13 (0.61%) Mistral
16 12 (0.56%) Salesforce
17 10 (0.47%) NetIQ